Yes, you are a star! Maybe right now you feel less than a star, all coated in grime. Tossed aside, and made to feel less than worthy of a seat at the table. But you are a Star, and you deserve your own table.
Hi and welcome back to Mental Monday, I hope you’ve had another fruitful week of trial and error, the attempts at becoming who we are. May we be blessed and remember that we are amazing humans regardless of what lies others might try to drown us with. We are Stars! Take this week to rediscover your shine and coat your world with things that remind you of how amazing you are!
Today’s Mental Monday is inspired by Stormzy who released an album called Heavy is the head and in particular an amazing song reminding us of who we are called Superheroes.
Don’t die on me, I know the world can be dark, but it gets darker without your light helping me through. You doubt your brilliance, I don’t blame you but it’s often said we are blinded to who we are because we often never look at ourselves, we look at others. So how would you know your light shines so bright, far and wide?
I know you don’t know me, and honestly I don’t know who you are either but one time I noticed you. The lecturer called you forward, and you smiled the whole time you stood in front. Then I noticed you more often from then and you were always smiling, even when you were alone. How can you always be happy?
I recieved this question in my first year of university, I didn’t know the person that approached me prior to this instance. But it’s a question I’ve recieved in different variations several times now. To be honest for a while there I faked being happy.
See my whole entire being wanted to be happy, however internally I was conflicted by numerous situations in my life that smiling became my default. If I didn’t want to speak to you or about something, I’d smile and shrug it off then walk away.
I’d smile to maintain that I’m smiling and I’m happy. I knew I should be grateful with life but sometimes, you look around and there doesn’t seem to be much to be grateful for, including waking up in the morning.
Yes, you’re a Star, I stand by that. I just also know that being a Star doesn’t mean anything if you feel less than. How can I be a Star;
when I feel ashamed of who I am?
Of what life had made of me?
Of my disappointment to the family?
When Stars are perfect? and I feel less than.
We ask ourselves plenty of questions when things don’t align with the reality we know. We ask all manner of questions because we have never witnessed what we could become, because we had no one to speak into our life that we are Stars.
With every broken bone, every sickness, and every bad luck curse placed upon you, You are still a magnificent Star.
We go either way, scientific route says being born is a statistical phenomenon of 1 in 400 trillion, those are the odds of your being born today. If you’re a Christian like me, then it’s simply because God makes no coincidences or accidents. Everything he created is by design.
You are a Star because all throughout the world, there is no one else like you. Regardless of your horrible experiences you are a Star meant to shine bright. Now because you are unique, the world likes to create averages within which it expects everyone to fall under. It just makes things easier to run things like governments.
It was never intended as a box to force everyone to submit to normalcy, unfortunately that is what we all looked for, a place to belong became a place to think with one mind. The world will push back against your need to be who you are, the world will attempt to clothe you in normalcy and if you’re truly lucky, the world will shun you as a lost cause because you are too different.
Lucky because if shunned hopefully you live life based on what is of value to you and not of value to the rest of the world. You are a Star not because we tell you that that is what you are but you are a Star because by design it’s in the very fabric of your being.
This Mental Monday I hope you recognize that you are of greatness. There will never be another you, you are a Star because its who you are, regardless how you feel your life is turning or if you lose strength just remember don’t try to be yourself, be who you are.
It will always feel like home, it will always feel right, it will light the way for a lot of us. As your journey to self love and peace of mind sets in to a growth destined to change lives.
May this Mental Monday help light the way to living life like the Stars we are!!
Amazing ❤
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